Can't legally speak about it in public but I'm pretty pissed off so I'll post it here.

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They can't just blame the shelters. Blame should also be placed on people who don't fix their pets, people who drop off animals at the shelter because they are too irresponsible to care for pets, and people who don't adopt to help ease the pressure. It is illogical for all shelters to keep all the animals alive; even for a STRICT no-kill shelter, they would have to just turn away new animals until the old ones are adopted or die of natural causes. It's still a lose situation.

Why is this even news? Everyone knows shelters have to euthanize animals, just because the rates may be higher than people expect doesn't mean that it should be news. And the reasons like "1 year old pit bulls" being put down is not as shocking as they make it out to be, pit bulls are harder to adopt out than say, labs or chihuahuas. It's making space, pit bulls are hard to adopt out being of the ignorant stigma surrounding them of them being more dangerous than other dogs when in reality pit bulls are only as dangerous as the owners let them be.

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Well, and we don't have a time or space limit. Euthanasia sucks, but we accept every animal that comes into our doors and if it's aggressive what are we supposed to do? Adopt it out so it will bite some one?

And if BSL bans were lifted Pit Bulls would be adopted out a lot more. A lot of insurance agencies won't allow people to own them and 90 percent of the apartments and townhomes here in STL do not allow "aggressive breeds" i.e. Pit Bulls, German Shepherds, Rotties. I mean hell.

"There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it."
- Guatama Buddha

that's shitty. it sucks of course, but damn... those breeds aren't "aggressive"
dogs are similar to pokemon, if you don't train them well and make them do harmful things, of course they'll be "aggressive"
i used to breed and train dogs. i hate how people buy these "aggressive" animals and then come back to return the animal because insurance wont let them own the dogs and in some places, their shots are more expensive because of their breed. ;(